& utilizing his super senior season available due to COVID
Pronunciation: gay BREE el LOW pez
Academics: Named Mountain West All-Academic in 2023.
2024 (Redshirt Senior Season): Played and started in nine games, registering 31 tackles, five tackles for loss, 1.0 sacks, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery … had a career-high eight tackles with a TFL against Wyoming … opened the season with four tackles, two TFLs, a sack and a forced fumble against Montana State … the forced fumble came on his sack and resulted in a second fumble return touchdown for the Lobos in the game … also had four tackles against Fresno State … returned after missing three games to face Colorado State and had six tackles … broke up a pass against Arizona.
2023 (Redshirt Junior Season): Played and started in all 12 games, recording 26 tackles, 2.0 sacks, 4.0 TFLs, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery, a pass breakup and two hurries … led all UNM defensive linemen in tackles … had a season-high five tackles in the season finale against Utah State, adding a six-yard sack and a quarterback hurry … had a streak of four straight games with three tackles, getting three against Hawai’i, Nevada, UNLV, and Boise State … had a nine-yard sack against Hawai’i … also had a forced fumble in that game that led to a turnover … didn’t record a tackle against Fresno State but was disruptive on the final drive of the Bulldogs with a hurry and a pass breakup … recovered a fumble against Tennessee Tech to go along with two tackles.
2022 (Redshirt Sophomore Season, Washington State): Played in three games … recorded a tackle aginst Colorado State.
2021 (Redshirt Freshman Season, Washington State): Played in four games without recording any statistics.
2020 (Freshman Season, Washington State): Played in all four games without recording any statistics.
High School: Lettered in football at Desert Pines High School where he was the No. 12 prospect coming out of Nevada regardless of position … as a senior was named to the MaxPreps All-State Team, the Nevada All-State Team and was NE Mountain Region Defensive MVP after recording 15 sacks in just eight games … as a junior was named Northeast League Mountain Region Defensive MVP after recording 13 sacks, 23 tackles-for-loss.
Personal: Full name is Gabriel Gallant Lopez … birthday is February 6, 2001 … majoring in communications.
